Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure
diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other
types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy.
BOINC lets you donate computing power to scientific research projects such as:
- Climateprediction.net: study climate change
- Einstein@home: search for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars
- LHC@home: improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator
- Predictor@home: investigate protein-related diseases
- Rosetta@home: help researchers develop cures for human diseases
- SETI@home: Look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life
- Cell Computing biomedical research (Japanese; requires nonstandard client software)
- World Community Grid: advance our knowledge of human disease.
- To participate in a project, download and run BOINC software, then enter the project's URL.
- You can participate in more than one project, and you control the
fraction of your computing power that goes to each project. If you
participate in several projects, your computer will be kept busy even
when one project has no work.

distributed.net was the Internet's first general-purpose distributed
computing project. Founded in 1997, our network has grown to include
thousands of users around the world donating the power of their home
computers to academic research and public-interest projects.

You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a
distributed computing project -- people from through out the world
download and run software to band together to make one of the largest
supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to
our goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed
computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more
challenging than previously achieved.